Posted on 12/14/2022 2:50:09 AM PST by where's_the_Outrage?
Masks are back, and, this time, they’re not just for Covid-19. A “tripledemic” of the coronavirus, influenza and respiratory syncytial virus, known as R.S.V., sweeping through the United States has prompted several cities and counties, including New York City and Los Angeles County, to encourage people to wear a mask in indoor public spaces once again......
There is strong evidence that masks help to reduce the transmission of several respiratory viruses. One paper published in 2020 by researchers in Hong Kong showed that people sick with either Covid-19 or the flu breathed out fewer viral particles when they were wearing a surgical mask. (Masks were found not to be as effective for the rhinovirus, though, which causes the common cold.) A study of Covid-19 policies in Boston-area schools found that removing a mask mandate in 2022 was tied to nearly 12,000 additional cases among students and staff....
Masks work by filtering out both the tiny aerosol particles through which the coronavirus is primarily spread and the larger droplets that are thought to be responsible for most influenza and R.S.V. transmission. They also stop you from touching your face in case you picked up virus particles on your hands from a doorknob or subway pole. And while masks are most effective at stopping the spread of these viruses when the infected person is wearing one, masking to protect yourself from disease is still beneficial, particularly if you’re using a high-quality version like N95, KN95 or KF94.
“The basic truth is that masks work,” said Syra Madad, senior director of the systemwide special pathogens program at New York City Health + Hospitals. “Whether you’re talking about Covid-19 or other respiratory viruses like R.S.V. and flu, wearing a mask will help protect you against all these respiratory viral illnesses.”
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Total crap, all about control.
Not recommended.
Masks = Don’t work.
Study after study after study has indicated this.
If I hear one more f-ing moron say “well it’s better than nothing,” I’m going to flip out. No. It IS nothing.
The war was never meant to be won. It was always meant to be continuous.
People who lie like that should be taken to the public square and beaten with sticks.
Max up and get re-injected
or else you will be rejected
by all the cool kids.
Then you’ll be on the skids
Lord Fauci is the bomb
So lets follow his sing along
“....wearing a mask will help protect you against all these respiratory viral illnesses.”
Why didn’t this work over the last three years?
***. It was always meant to be continuous. ***
Like Vietnam?
There is strong evidence that masks help to reduce the transmission
like catching sand through a chain link fence
While I did not quote him, that phrase is from Orwell’s book 1984.
Tripledemic and next year quad-demic, and the year after that pentademic.
ENOUGH OF THE BS!! Then again all the Maskerbaters must be sucking their face diapers with joy.
More like Afghanistan - longer than Vietnam, and ending only when another market for hardware (Ukraine) has opened up.
Wear a mask and you’ll punch your ticket for the Democrats’ oligarchy.
Oh. Shut. Up.
They finally admitted what science has known for decades; that masks do not protect from viruses; but now, with THREE viruses, masks could work.
To hell with them.
Beaten with sticks?
Yes.
Then tarred and feathered.
Then pilloried for a week.
Then dragged out of town by horses.
All up to the individual - you want to wear one, wear one, but mandating such is garbo BS, just like with the vaccines, boosters, etc. - but posting anyways:
‘Masks Don’t Work: A Review of Science Relevant to COVID-19 Social Policy’
https://www.rcreader.com/commentary/masks-dont-work-covid-a-review-of-science-relevant-to-covide-19-social-policy
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